Slash-And-Burn In Indonesia

Indonesia's peat forests are home to Sumatran tigers, Asian elephants and orangutans.
(Photo by Ann Dornfeld)

Officials from every country in the
world have gathered in Copenhagen
this week to build the
framework for a global climate treaty.
One of the goals is to slow the
destruction of forests in developing
countries. Those forests process and
store massive amounts of carbon dioxide.
Ann Dornfeld reports: